Teaching Quotes by John Dewey

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative…

— John Dewey

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking;…

— John Dewey

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core…

— John Dewey

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

— John Dewey

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

— John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to…

— John Dewey

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession…

— John Dewey

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

— John Dewey

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as…

— John Dewey

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or…

— John Dewey

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

— John Dewey

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

— John Dewey

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

— John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

— John Dewey

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they…

— John Dewey

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc.,…

— John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It…

— John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in…

— John Dewey